Summer Term Week Beginning 9th May 2022
Current home learning 2021-22:
This week we are exploring our topic of stormy seas through the poem 'The Sea' by James Reeves.
The Sea by James Reeves
The sea is a hungry dog,
Giant and grey.
He rolls on the beach all day.
With his clashing teeth and shaggy jaws
Hour upon hour he gnaws
The rumbling, tumbling stones,
And 'Bones, bones, bones, bones! '
The giant sea-dog moans,
Licking his greasy paws.
And when the night wind roars
And the moon rocks in the stormy cloud,
He bounds to his feet and snuffs and sniffs,
Shaking his wet sides over the cliffs,
And howls and hollos long and loud.
But on quiet days in May or June,
When even the grasses on the dune
Play no more their reedy tune,
With his head between his paws
He lies on the sandy shores,
So quiet, so quiet, he scarcely snores.
We will begin by listening to the poem and paying attention to the images that come to mind. The children will then draw what they imagine.
There will be a brief exploration of how the structure of poetry is different to narrative fiction and non-fiction before diving into how to use adjectives to create effective description.
Later in the week, children will write their own sea poem inspired by both Reeves's poem and another sea poem (The Sea by John Foster). As this is their first attempt at poetry, it will follow a guided structure:
The sea is like a/an ......
It ......
It ......
When I am by the sea I .......
We will also use Reeves's poem as an example of singular vs plural words and when to add -s or -es to the end of a word.